Vintage 1981 PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL COMMITTEE STATIONERY LETTERHEAD & ENVELOPES

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Up for auction is a lot of 1981 Presidential Inaugural Committee Stationery and Envelopes. These were purchased from the estate of Mr Edward Daniel 'Ted' Jr & Mrs. Mary Nell McFall Mclaughlin. Both the McLaughlins were heavily involved in politics, senate and presidential campaigns. You can read more about them below.
What you see in the photos is what you get. They are being sold together as-is.
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Mary began her career in government by working for the U.S. Navy Department in Washington, D.C. and the Internal Revenue Service in Florence. She was on the staff of Senator John Sparkman of Alabama for 2 years. For three years, she lived in Paris, working for one year in the headquarters of the U.S. Military European Command, Public Affairs office, and two years for a Swiss Bank.
She returned to the United States, again to the personal staff of Senator Sparkman. From there she served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she spent almost 18 years, first as Assistant to the Chief of Staff, then as Professional Staff Member for Protocol and Inter-Parliamentary Affairs. She traveled to 32 countries when Members of the Senate met with Parliamentarians of those countries. She was privileged to work in the U.S. Capitol Building for 16 years. Her young son would point to the Capitol, or a photo of it, and say “Mommy’s office”.
As Protocol Officer, she met many Heads of State and Foreign Ministers. She was presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Prince Phillip.
In 1981, Mary worked in the Diplomatic Protocol Section of the Inaugural Committee of incoming President Ronald Reagan. She and her husband attended the first White House Reception given by President and Mrs. Reagan. In 1993, she was a staff member on the Inaugural Committee of incoming President Bill Clinton, with whom she had worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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'Ted' was born on September 7, 1930 in Havana, Cuba where his father was an official with the U.S. Embassy. He was the son of the late Judge Edward D. McLaughlin and Martha Mallory McLaughlin. Ted McLaughlin grew up in all the Foreign Service posts to which his father was assigned: Mexico, Brazil, including two years in the Amazon, Canada, Germany, and Ireland. He attended the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of North Carolina where he lettered in wrestling. He served in the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps Reserve during the Korean War. Early in his career he was a junior executive with Esso Standard Oil of New Jersey's International Division. In 1960 he worked in the Alabama presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and subsequently went to Washington to work in the Housing and Home Finance Agency. When that agency became the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, he was assigned to the Office of Congressional Relations. He worked in the 1966 Alabama Senate campaign of Senator John Sparkman, and later in the presidential campaigns of Bob Kennedy, Birch Bayh, Ted Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter. He retired from active service with the U.S. Government after serving with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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